Find kth element and sliding-window kth in stream

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Find kth element and sliding-window kth in stream

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This question evaluates understanding of order statistics and selection in arrays as well as sliding-window stream processing, including maintaining kth elements with bounded-value frequency or bucket counts.

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Find kth element and sliding-window kth in stream